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Denotified & Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group

DNT-RAG is acronym for Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group. It was founded in June 1998 by Mahasweta Devi, Ganesh N. Devy and Laxman Gaikwad, co-signers on a petition to investigate the death of Budhan Sabar, a tribal belonging to Kheria Sabar community of West Bengal, who was brutally murdered in police custody.

From the late eighteenth century through independence, the British colonial administration in India classified certain communities as criminal, giving such classification a legal sanction through their Regulations and Acts of 1793, 1836, 1910 and 1920. It was not until 1952, after the All India Criminal Tribes Enquiry Committee was constituted, that these statutory criminal communities were 'denotified.' There are anywhere from 27 million to 60 million such people in India who, despite the 'denotification', continue to face social ostracism and victimization at the hands of police.

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